NSA Cyber-Spying Scandal, Cloud Adoption Among Top 2013 IT Trends

Grazed from eWeek. Author: Eric Lundquist.

The National Security Agency’s hacks of top corporate networks and the broad adoption of cloud computing are among my picks for the top enterprise IT trends of 2013. What were the top 10 events, trends, and technologies that changed the enterprise in 2013? While there are lots of candidates, I picked the top one which I think had the greatest impact. Here are my first five trends. I’ll be adding the final five in a later blog and then sorting them out in a 1 to 10 ranking.

The NSA cyber-spying scandal: When the National Security Agency domestic cyber-spying scandal first started to unfold last June it was unclear that the snooping would reach out and touch the world’s top technology vendors. Rather it seemed at first as if the snooping was all about telecom intercepts…

When I sat through the first public appearance of National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander at the Black Hat show in Las Vegas, the presentation was all about program limits, containment and secret courts upholding the public’s concern…

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